Oak Ridge National Laboratory is developing a low-cost, transparent, anti-soiling (or self-cleaning) coating for solar reflectors to optimize energy efficiency while lowering operating and maintenance costs and avoiding negative environmental impacts.
Jan 29th, 2014
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Researchers have used a NIST-developed laboratory model of a simplified cell membrane to accurately detect and measure a protein associated with a serious gynecological disease, bacterial vaginosis, at extraordinarily low concentrations. The work illustrates how the artificial membrane could be used to improve disease diagnosis.
Jan 29th, 2014
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Though piezoelectrics are a widely used technology, there are major gaps in our understanding of how they work. Now researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Canada's Simon Fraser University believe they've learned why one of the main classes of these materials, known as relaxors, behaves in distinctly different ways from the rest and exhibit the largest piezoelectric effect.
Jan 29th, 2014
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The product has proven efficiency in lab tests, although clinical trials are yet to be performed.
Jan 29th, 2014
Read moreResearchers at New York University have developed a method for creating and directing fast moving waves in magnetic fields that have the potential to enhance communication and information processing in computer chips and other consumer products.
Jan 29th, 2014
Read moreThis issue brings you news of the NanoTox 2014 Congress in Antalya in April, which inevitably has implications for current NSC activities, and so the Newsletter begins with the draft agenda for the NSC meeting to be held there.
Jan 29th, 2014
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Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory have created a new type of tunnel device structure in which the tunnel barrier and transport channel are made of the same material, graphene.
Jan 29th, 2014
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By letting DNA strands grow together with gold, scientists at Uppsala Berzelii Centre for Neurodiagnostics and Science for Life Laboratory have developed a brand new concept for super sensitive diagnostics of different diseases.
Jan 29th, 2014
Read moreBreakthroughs in disease detection, tissue engineering, and biosensors take center stage at first workshop of the NYU School of Engineering's Institute for Engineered Interfaces.
Jan 29th, 2014
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A new theoretical model may hold the key to methods for developing better materials for solar cells. The scientists say the model could lead to new solar cell materials made from improved blends of semiconducting polymers and fullerenes.
Jan 29th, 2014
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Cuttlefish may offer model for bioinspired human camouflage and color-changing products.
Jan 29th, 2014
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Researchers have shown that free-base and nickel porphyrin-diaminopurine conjugates are formed by hydrogen-bond-directed assembly on single-stranded oligothymidine templates of different lengths into helical multiporphyrin nanoassemblies. The nanoassemblies have highly modular structural and chiroptical properties.
Jan 29th, 2014
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Molecular dynamics simulations reveal the mechanisms by which metal nanowires deform or break under strain.
Jan 29th, 2014
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An array of perfect nanometer-scale spheres that can control the flow of visible light may find use in invisibility cloaks.
Jan 29th, 2014
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A new brochure explains how to get started if you want to search for nanotechnology inventions in patent databases, and what to look out for if you are thinking about applying to the European Patent Office for a nanotechnology patent yourself.
Jan 28th, 2014
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Many of the most exciting frontiers in biomedical research sound like the stuff of science fiction, but here's some work that even looks like it's straight from the set of Star Trek! This scanning electron micrograph captures the pivotal moment when nanospheres - a futuristic approach to drug delivery - are swallowed up by a human fibroblast cell.
Jan 28th, 2014
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